Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

You would attain to the divine perfection.

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Be thy sleep Silent as night is, and as deep.

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But the great Master said, "I see No best in kind, but in degree; I gave a various gift to each, To charm, to strengthen, and to teach".

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In the elder days of art Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part, For the Gods are everywhere

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The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.

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I dislike an eye that twinkles like a star. Those only are beautiful which, like the planets, have a steady lambent light, are luminous, but not sparkling.

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As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.

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My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea, and the heart of the great ocean sends a thrilling pulse through me.

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Sweet is the air with the budding haws, and the valley stretching for miles below Is white with blossoming cherry-trees, as if just covered with lighted snow.

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Among the noblest in the land - Though man may count himself the least - That man I honor and revere, Who without favor, without fear, In the great city dares to stand, The friend of every friendless beast.

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I am weary of your quarrels, Weary of your wars and bloodshed, Weary of your prayers for vengeance, Of your wranglings and dissensions

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He spoke well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.

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The soul...is audible, not visible.

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In the long run men hit only what they aim at.

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Authors have a greater right than any copyright, though it is generally unacknowledged or disregarded. They have a right to the reader's civility. There are favorable hours for reading a book, as for writing it, and to these the author has a claim. Yet many people think that when they buy a book they buy with it the right to abuse the author.

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Fortune comes well to all that comes not late.

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I do not believe anyone can be perfectly well, who has a brain and a heart

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It was the schooner Hesperus, That sailed the wintry sea.

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Truly, this world can go on without us, if we would but think so.

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The low desire, the base design That makes another's virtues less.

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